In the midst of the interview (listen online here),
Gross asked Nash to talk about his friendship with Neil Young, a man
Nash has called “the strangest of my friends.” Just what makes him
strange? Nash explains:

The man is totally committed to the muse of music. And
he’ll do anything for good music. And sometimes it’s very strange. I was
at Neil’s ranch one day just south of San Francisco, and he has a
beautiful lake with red-wing blackbirds. And he asked me if I wanted to
hear his new album, “Harvest.” And I said sure, let’s go into the studio and listen.
Oh, no. That’s not what Neil had in mind. He said get into the rowboat.
I said get into the rowboat? He said, yeah, we’re going to go out
into the middle of the lake. Now, I think he’s got a little cassette
player with him or a little, you know, early digital format player. So
I’m thinking I’m going to wear headphones and listen in the relative
peace in the middle of Neil’s lake.
Oh, no. He has his entire house as the left speaker and his entire
barn as the right speaker. And I heard “Harvest” coming out of these two
incredibly large loud speakers louder than hell. It was unbelievable.
Elliot Mazer, who produced Neil, produced “Harvest,” came down to the
shore of the lake and he shouted out to Neil: How was that, Neil?
And I swear to god, Neil Young shouted back: More barn!